1960s Protest in the Bay Area (Part 2)

Posters in Berkeley, 1969

All Photos by Clay Geerdes

In addition to the frequent demonstrations against the war in Vietnam, there were many other instances of protest in the Bay Area during the 1960s. People joined together in public displays of collective concern, speaking out to promote the causes in which they believed, from civil rights to feminism to black power to environmentalism. Clay Geerdes made it his business to preserve the spirit of such gatherings with his camera, and his photos offer valuable evidence of a bygone decade when people were not afraid to break out of narrow constraints and take a stand.

A demonstration in the late 1960s, on behalf of varied causes, by lawyers in the Bay Area:

Demonstrations by students at San Francisco State College in San Francisco and the University of California in Berkeley, 1969:

A skit performed by members of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), at the University of California in Berkeley, 1969:

Expressions of protest in the Bay Area, late 1960s:

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